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Making Love in the Dark: Putting Out for Hot Chip
Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard is somewhere in Manhattan, in just another building, on the phone with just another journalist, during just another press day for his band. Though he is miles away from... read more»
Excursions, Paths and Light: Q-Tip and the Legacy of A Tribe Called Quest
The thing is, nowadays, they might not make it. Eighteen years after the release of its first album, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, we must admit to ourselves... read more»
The Fall: A Conversation with Writer/Director Tarsem
The plot for Tarsem’s new film, The Fall, is at once fantastical and indelibly relatable. At a Hollywood hospital, a seriously injured silent film stuntman (Lee Pace) weaves an... read more»
In Bruges: A Conversation with Writer-Director Martin McDonagh
Somewhere between London and Amsterdam, my bus went through Bruges. That’s in Belgium. To the driver of the bus, a man prone to periodically providing helpful and unsolicited tidbits of tourist... read more»
Jick Flicks: A Conversation with Stephen Malkmus & Todd Haynes
These damn rules. Rules are meant to be broken. Limits are meant to be pushed. And creativity is meant to be expressed. Because, well, a rose is a rose is a rose, unless it is an onion, or a song, or... read more»
Filter's Top 5 of 2008... So Far
While the music industry still seems to have its share of tumbles, there certainly has been no shortage of quality music releases in the year 2008.  The votes have all been cast, the scores... read more»
Uno Mas: A Look Into Latin/Spanish Electronica
What do you get when you fuse beats? When you combine genres? For instance, take one electronic dance sample and mix it with something like gypsy rhythms, or better yet, traditional Mexican beats... read more»
Standing Alone: The Imperfect Zen of Hüsker Dü
There was a time before the instantaneousness of MySpace, filesharing, blogging, and the iTunes store when music was discovered by browsing the racks at local indie record shops, listening to... read more»
Grand Ole Party: First Comes Chaos
There was a tsunami a while ago. A war is going on somewhere, probably a few. Some mines recently collapsed. A woman in her 60’s had a baby. Someone else much younger had seven babies, all at... read more»
Sons & Daughters: Rock & Roll Love Affair
It was love, instantly.     The moment that cassette of the Smiths’ The Queen is Dead landed in her hands, Adele Bathel’s life changed. The album... read more»
Reality, Refined: Todd Oldham and the Art and Influence of Charlie Harper
The universe is a messy and complex place, full of chaos and mayhem. And though the world’s big brains edge ever closer to unlocking the Big Questions of what keeps the whole disarray glued... read more»
Beasts in Chic Clothing: The Features Take the Diesel:U:Music Awards
On the roof of London’s popular Club KOKO, 30 feet above the streets of Camden Town, where the hip kids go to booze and buy vintage, four quiet guys from Nashville pose for the camera. Working... read more»
Shaolincognito: Hiding Out With the Wu-Tang Clan
It makes sense that the nine original members of the Wu-Tang Clan forged their alliances over classic kung fu films. In 1990, three years before the group released their debut record, Enter the... read more»
PJ Harvey's Stories From Seclusion
Like with most musicians, actors or celebrities, we’ve all come to expect something from those who are able to create a body of work that is both unique and captivating. There’s always... read more»
The Titans of Clash: The Enduring Mythology of The Who
Accounting for legends and myths is a difficult endeavor. Through metaphor, these tales represent the trials of us normaltans, but it’d be a stretch to think of Zeus as one of the... read more»


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